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Steam launch. Apparently a sister to Cygnet. The Royal Museums at Greenwich have the plans, but not much else is available online. [9] 1870 Cygnet #9 1.5 Small steam launch, preserved and displayed by The Tamesis Trust. [10] 1871 Miranda #10 3.7 A fast steam yacht with lines that set the precedent for torpedo boats in the following years. [11 ...
The list of ship launches in 1888 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1888. Date Country Builder Location ... Steam launch: For Mr. Hale. [101]
A steam tanker for the Norwegian A/S Laboremus in Oslo. The original steam turbines were replaced with a Norwegian-built steam engine in 1927. Sold in 1933 to the Peruvian Navy and named Parinas. Scrapped in 1961. [50] 1921 Liscard: 1004 734 Two luggage boats for the Borough of Wallasey at Liverpool.
The following is a list of ships that were built by Harland & Wolff, a heavy industrial company which specialises in shipbuilding and offshore construction, and is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as having had yards at Govan (1914–1963) and Greenock (1920–1928) in Scotland.
An Escher Wyss launch of 1888 Alfred Nobel's aluminium-hulled sloop Mignon. A naphtha launch, sometimes called a "vapor launch", was a small motor launch, powered by a naphtha engine. They were a particularly American design, brought into being by a local law that made it impractical to use a steam launch for private use.
The exploits of Miranda gave rise to further orders of similar vessels, including Gitana, built in 1876 and capable of 20.8 knots (38.5 km/h; 23.9 mph), which was an astonishing speed at the time. Besides the yacht sales, Thornycroft found an even more lucrative business building torpedo boats .
In 1888, a serious accident occurred while Herreshoff was supervising speed trials of a 138-foot (42 m), 875-horsepower (652 kW) steamboat named Say When. After a safety valve opened to release over-pressure, Herreshoff closed it so the boat could achieve its anticipated maximum speed. But a boiler exploded, fatally injuring a member of the crew.
Leschi became the steam launch Lillie, part of the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army. [12] [13] After the sale of Leschi, Anderson had the steamer Acme built by Gustavus V. Johnson at his Lake Washington Shipyard. [14] She was completed in June 1899. [15] She provided ferry service from Leschi Park to Madison Park.